From dslater at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Jun  7 09:08:37 2019
From: dslater at andrew.cmu.edu (Don Slater)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 08:08:37 -0500
Subject: alice-teacher Fwd: Google Classroom
References: <CAF6NRpC0rFMMGA1_u0J=G8GTAb6HLpXwhK4X3hrg5=Ui8-7OrA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <12E065E4-41C8-4FE3-8AA7-31D534B18C5D@alice.org>

To all from one of our overseas partners?

Thank you,
Don Slater


> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Matjaz Marussig <marussig at siol.net>
> Subject: Google Classroom
> Date: June 3, 2019 at 4:09:44 PM CDT
> To: Donald Slater <djslater107 at mac.com>
> Cc: Darko Jurekovic <darko.jurekovic at oracle.com>
> 
> Don,
> 
> I'm testing Google Classroom. I have 20 9 years old students, including parents. I teach them Alice 2 from scratch. I demanded from parents to help their children. And this works. Google Classroom is free of charge, and as I understand Google Suit Classroom as well in case I send them a certificate that we are an educated institution.
> 
> This is a fantastic finding because in this case, I do not need a place for workshops nor a schedule. Later I can offer very inexpensive online workshops of Alice. 
> 
> Now I have a question and would like to hear from you about recommendations. Do you know some parents in US for whom you think they will cooperate with their children with us here in EU. This is free of charge testing and I expect this kind of testing at least till October. The point is that in this case, I can realize all those I explained to you years ago (and I suppose you've already forgotten :-) ). But honestly, this could be a way to connect the youngest oversee starting with Alice.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Matjaz Marussig
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Matjaz Marussig ME
> ISV
> Oracle Silver Partner
> 
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig <https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig>
> Medium: https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig <https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig>
> Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig <https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig>
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig <https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig>
> Office Email: marussig at siol.net <mailto:marussig at siol.net>
> Private Email: matjaz.marussig at gmail.com <mailto:matjaz.marussig at gmail.com>
> www: http://marussig.si/ <http://marussig.si/>
> Skypename: matjazmarussig
> Phone: 0038641508427

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From mhuret at mindspring.com  Fri Jun  7 10:40:29 2019
From: mhuret at mindspring.com (Marilynn Huret)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 10:40:29 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Subject: alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 102, Issue 1
Message-ID: <476364236.2326.1559918430277@wamui-hamster.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Whenever I do an afterschool workshop, I ask the parents to stay. This keeps the youngsters focused and also enables the parents to participate and act as "helpers" especially with 5-7 graders.

-=marilynn huret=-


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>To all from one of our overseas partners?
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>Thank you,
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>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Matjaz Marussig <marussig at siol.net>
>> Subject: Google Classroom
>> Date: June 3, 2019 at 4:09:44 PM CDT
>> To: Donald Slater <djslater107 at mac.com>
>> Cc: Darko Jurekovic <darko.jurekovic at oracle.com>
>> 
>> Don,
>> 
>> I'm testing Google Classroom. I have 20 9 years old students, including parents. I teach them Alice 2 from scratch. I demanded from parents to help their children. And this works. Google Classroom is free of charge, and as I understand Google Suit Classroom as well in case I send them a certificate that we are an educated institution.
>> 
>> This is a fantastic finding because in this case, I do not need a place for workshops nor a schedule. Later I can offer very inexpensive online workshops of Alice. 
>> 
>> Now I have a question and would like to hear from you about recommendations. Do you know some parents in US for whom you think they will cooperate with their children with us here in EU. This is free of charge testing and I expect this kind of testing at least till October. The point is that in this case, I can realize all those I explained to you years ago (and I suppose you've already forgotten :-) ). But honestly, this could be a way to connect the youngest oversee starting with Alice.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Matjaz Marussig
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Matjaz Marussig ME
>> ISV
>> Oracle Silver Partner
>> 
>> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig <https://www.linkedin.com/in/matjazmarussig>
>> Medium: https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig <https://medium.com/@matjazmarussig>
>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig <https://twitter.com/MatjazMarussig>
>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig <https://www.facebook.com/matjazmarussig>
>> Office Email: marussig at siol.net <mailto:marussig at siol.net>
>> Private Email: matjaz.marussig at gmail.com <mailto:matjaz.marussig at gmail.com>
>> www: http://marussig.si/ <http://marussig.si/>
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From epatry at highlandschool.org  Thu Jun 13 12:31:08 2019
From: epatry at highlandschool.org (Elaine Patry)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:31:08 -0400
Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3 Duke Coursera course signup form - free
 for teachers in Summer 2019
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Susan, Steven,
I did this and have an email verifying, but I haven't heard anything
since.  How do I know when this starts?
Elaine

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Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3 Duke Coursera course signup form - free for
teachers in Summer 2019



We have created an Alice 3 Programming and Animation Duke Coursera online
course for beginners to learn programming. We will run a special Beta
version of our course this summer for K-12 teachers to take for free. This
special version will launch on June 17, 2019. After the summer, the course
will launch as a regular Coursera course.

Teachers can sign up to take the course for free this summer and be a Beta
Tester. The course is an 8 week course. That is an approximation. Some
weeks could take longer. At least half of the course will be available
when it is released and the later weeks will be released as they are
complete, likely all released by July 15 or earlier.

You must create a Coursera account in order to sign up for our Alice 3
course. We need the email address associated with your Coursera course in
order to add you to the course as a Beta Tester.

To sign up for the Duke Coursera course in Summer 2019, sign up here:

https://forms.gle/En6HWN8bNWzwW99m9

If you have questions, you can email rodger at cs.duke.edu, but I will be out
of the country until the end of May 28, so may be slow to answer questions
until then.

Susan Rodger (Duke) and Steve Cooper (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
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From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Jun 21 20:01:58 2019
From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:01:58 -0700
Subject: alice-teacher Alice at ISTE
Message-ID: <E69D0CBC-39CE-4512-B362-B19408BB16F2@andrew.cmu.edu>

Dear All,

To any of you who will be attending ISTE please stop by and visit John Balash at the Unity VR booth on Monday June 24th from 3:30-5:30 to see Alice worlds running in VR.  This is our first demo of our work to bring Alice back to publishing to VR.   It is super exciting to see what kids will soon be able to do with Alice.

Sincerely,

Eric
 

From wbarnum at elmhurst205.org  Mon Jun 24 16:26:36 2019
From: wbarnum at elmhurst205.org (Barnum, William)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:26:36 -0500
Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.5 Terminating Without Error
Message-ID: <CAMDLx6HpPe-KhPBaJQyMi_oP665uZhDSxWdubir97=5C+kcbHQ@mail.gmail.com>

Has anyone else had any issue with students projects that terminate the
Alice IDE without generating any sort of error?

I had this happen a few times recently. The last two students that this
happened to, I think I was able to get it resolved by having students
replace an object that may have been corrupted. The biped object was
rendering weirdly in both their programs which made me suspect it.

Bill Barnum
Computer Science Teacher
York Community High School
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From dslater at andrew.cmu.edu  Mon Jun 24 17:16:24 2019
From: dslater at andrew.cmu.edu (Donald Slater)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:16:24 -0400
Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.5 Terminating Without Error
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Bill,
We would love to see these problem worlds, if you still have copies that you can send us in which this is happening?

One comment, there are times when students will see the angry queen, and they will think they have solved the problem. Perhaps they have but she still might shows up (either because Alice has not cleared the error flag, or their are other issues). In this case they receive a message that allows them to continue with a ?silently fail? option. If they accept this option they will no longer see the angry queen, but their program could very well shut down on them if their really is a problem.

Whenever they see the angry queen they should save their work, try to fix the problem, save again, quit Alice and restart. This will clear the error flag, and if they have indeed solved the problem, they will not see the angry queen.

Let m know i you have any more questions.

All the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project

> On Jun 24, 2019, at 4:26 PM, Barnum, William <wbarnum at elmhurst205.org> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone else had any issue with students projects that terminate the Alice IDE without generating any sort of error?
> 
> I had this happen a few times recently. The last two students that this happened to, I think I was able to get it resolved by having students replace an object that may have been corrupted. The biped object was rendering weirdly in both their programs which made me suspect it.
> 
> Bill Barnum
> Computer Science Teacher
> York Community High School
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From wbarnum at elmhurst205.org  Tue Jun 25 12:58:18 2019
From: wbarnum at elmhurst205.org (Barnum, William)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:58:18 -0500
Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.5 Terminating Without Error (Attached
	File)
Message-ID: <CAMDLx6GvcmW7D9d6AAiMTNn3qVFcdAMLhVhbq=D4fLhZYbXfUw@mail.gmail.com>

Here is a copy of a program that displays this issue.

This is an example of a project that I assign students, so other student's
projects that generate the error will include similar algorithms.

If I run it and play it, I can get it to terminate without error. Sometimes
I have to hit the restart button several times, to get the bug to occur.
Also, there are issues with the rendering of objects sometimes, which isn't
really a problem but may be related.

Disabling certain methods usually causes the error to go away even if there
isn't an obvious problem with the method.

Thanks,
Bill
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From dslater at andrew.cmu.edu  Tue Jun 25 15:26:13 2019
From: dslater at andrew.cmu.edu (Donald Slater)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:26:13 -0400
Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.5 Terminating Without Error (Attached
	File)
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Bill,
I think I have identified the problem? The student program you sent me was using the isCollidingWith function in the procedure EnemyColliding? He was doing this instead of using a Collision listener.

When I took the functionality of that procedure and moved it into a collisionStartedListener in the initializeEventListeners tab, the crashing problem seemed to go away? I have attached a copy of my solution with this change. The code is somewhat messy and can be cleaned up and simplified.

The key in using the collision listeners is that you define two sets (arrays -> SThing[]) of objects. For me, SetA will contain the ?colliders?, those objects that will (in my mind) initialize the collision, in this case the teenPersonHero. SetB will then be the targets (in this case, the three birds). There are times when the colliders and targets will be exactly the same.

You then must determine which of the targets has been collided with

	if thingFromSetB == falcon

for example,

and then you build the response to the collision?

Because there is so much repetitious code in the collision response in this project, I would probably have built a method that handled everything, and passed the appropriate bird as a parameter. I did not know if you had covered parameters in your class, so I left this as is.

This is a pretty cool project, by the way, and playing the game for debugging purposes was not tedious ;-)

Also, thank you for helping us identify the potential problems of using the event functions outside of the listener space.

I suspect that these can be used in a one-off type of situation in a project, but trying to use them as your student did (in a while loop instead of using a listener may be problematic.

Thank you, and all the best,

Don Slater

Alice Project

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> On Jun 25, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Barnum, William <wbarnum at elmhurst205.org> wrote:
> 
> Here is a copy of a program that displays this issue. 
> 
> This is an example of a project that I assign students, so other student's projects that generate the error will include similar algorithms.
> 
> If I run it and play it, I can get it to terminate without error. Sometimes I have to hit the restart button several times, to get the bug to occur. Also, there are issues with the rendering of objects sometimes, which isn't really a problem but may be related.
> 
> Disabling certain methods usually causes the error to go away even if there isn't an obvious problem with the method.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
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From dslater at andrew.cmu.edu  Tue Jun 25 16:25:13 2019
From: dslater at andrew.cmu.edu (Donald Slater)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:25:13 -0400
Subject: alice-teacher Collision Detection Events
Message-ID: <E0D27885-DD6A-4D86-B42E-E7CEE94E9542@andrew.cmu.edu>

In case there are any questions related the discussion of Collision Events from my recent posting, here are links to videos on Collision Detection and Proximity (which is related to Collision - there is a bad pun here somewhere ;-)  )Listeners that may provide a little more information.

	Collision Detection: http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/setting-up-collision-detection/ <http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/setting-up-collision-detection/>
	Proximity Detection: http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/setting-up-proximity-detection/ <http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/setting-up-proximity-detection/>

Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions?

All the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project
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